A stick of dynamite flung into the mouth of today's corporate dance music blandness, 'New Life' finds the Saint Petersburg producer spitting multi-strain madness with reckless fun and adventurous panache. Take New Order in their Technique days, sprinkle with early hip-hop breaks and finish it with a funk-savvy mix of acid, happy hardcore and ghetto tech jack, and you pretty much have the opening track and lead-single 'New Life' capsulized to a tee.
A blissed-out, choppy ride spinning recklessly into dance-y abandon, 'Love Filter' takes us on a heavy-lidded trip across dreamy electronic folds and onto vaporous apexes, where drum-heavy jolts and sliced vocals collide with spacious pads from outer space. As hypnotic as it reveals hard-hitting, 'Killer Line De-Part' deploys a warped kaleidoscope of trancey shades, grunge-y grit and largely '80s informed analogue wizardry, converging towards the most hair-raising finale with your feet in the air and a dumb smile across the face. Rounding off the record, 'Put Love Into Your Heart (Club Mix)' is a luminous slice of trippy, feelgood electronics engineered for dance floor communion and uplifting let-go. Fill your heart with love.[info sheet from distr.]